Posters of promoting sex education

Change to sex education urged

CONTRACEPTION PLAN: Taiwan should follow the example of Sweden, which instructs on birth control from a young age, the Taiwan Association for Sexuality Education said By Max Hirsch

All they wanted to do was talk about sex.
The 16th annual conference of the Taiwan Association for Sexuality Education (TASE) saw leading experts in various sex-related fields descend on National Taiwan Normal University yesterday for what the association billed as the nation's first ever academic forum on sex education.

Faced with an alarming HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region and the fact that the nation has the highest birth rate in Asia among teenage girls -- statistics suggest a birth rate as high as 12 percent among girls aged 15 to 19 from 2000 to 2005 -- the nation must rethink its approach to sex education, experts urged, warning the government not to look to the US for guidance.

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Sex education needs to address teenage pregnancy, expert says

Taiwan's high teenage pregnancy rate can be attributed to insufficient sex education as well as the conservative attitude of parents toward sex, an expert said yesterday.
Kao Sung-chin, secretary-general of the Taiwan Association for Sexuality Education, made the remarks during a seminar sponsored by the association.

Kao said that more open sex education, with teachers and parents more willing to discuss issues related to sex, would be most helpful to teenagers. He said that although Taiwan's birthrate has continued to slip, its birthrate among teenagers is the highest in Asia, or three times that of Asia, and five times that of South Korea. He noted that the birth rate among teenagers dropped to eight per 1,000 in 2005 from 14 per 1,000 in 2000, averaging 11.8 per 1,000 over the past five years. This compares with 4 per 1,000 in Japan and 2.8 per 1,000 in South Korea.

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'This is not a game'

Abstinence advocate gives students firm talk

Frank, sincere and powerful words about sexual abstinence boomed to Sturgis High School students Monday."Real love respects," said national abstinence speaker, Pam Stenzel. "Love would never ask you to do something that would damage you the rest of your life."Stenzel spoke with a passion that captured the attention of hundreds of teens. The cost of having a baby, the risks of obtaining an STD and the price of a broken heart were all part of Stenzel's hour-long assembly.

The No. 1 fear teens have today about having sex is pregnancy, Stenzel said. But pregnancy is not a disease. It's survivable.

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Teen Pregnancy - The Problems Of A Child-Mother

Teen pregnancy is one of the major social issues in today’s society. Today’s teens are becoming sexually active at a younger age than teens of the previous generation. Most of the times, it is due to peer pressure to be “cool” and “popular”. However, sadly, they are not aware of the consequences of unprotected sex, which leads to unwanted pregnancy. The pressures are manifold in such cases, first informing the parent about the situation they are in. Secondly, the guilt and shame such girls undergo can psychologically scar them for life.
Social Problems of Pregnant Teens

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Abuse major cause for teen pregnancy

A study on adolescent pregnancies, conducted at the Medical College Hospital here, has found that child sex abuse is the major cause of pregnancy in the 15-18 age group.The study was conducted by Dr Khuraisha Beevi, assistant professor at the Prevention of Epidemic and Infective diseases section of the Medical College.

It is high time that we introduced sex education, not just for students but for parents too,?said Khuraisha Beevi.Her study on adolescent pregnant girls who were admitted to the MCH for termination of pregnancies reveal that 19.7 percent cases resulted from sex abuse by close relatives. This is seen more in broken families and families where the parents have a strained relationship,pointed out Khuraisha Beevi.

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School hands out 345 morning-after pills to students - without telling parents

A school has admitted handing out 345 morning-after pills to teenage girls without telling their parents.

The figure for contraceptives distributed at Lutterworth Grammar School and Community College over four years is believed to be the highest in England and Wales.
Parents and family groups were outraged at the "disgusting" and "wicked" scheme which they say encourages promiscuity and could put children at risk of contracting sexually-transmitted diseases.

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This is a news that I found from Daily Mail recently.

I think I can't really accept what they did, because this will give encouragement to the teenagers to have unprotected and underage sex.

I think the way to reduce under age pregnancies is not to hand out pills, but to hand out the punishment laid down by law on anyone having underage sex. If some prison sentences were handed out people, particularly young people, would perhaps think twice before indulging in promiscuous activities. And I think they should promote and educate the teenagers rather than handing out the pills.

It is not reasonable that the school not telling the parents becasue schools will let you know if your child has missed a lesson, even when they are 16 plus, is their health of less importance than missing lessons?